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Article: Narrative, Reflexivity, and Ideology.(Review)
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Jeffrey J. Williams. Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv + 204. $49.95 cloth.
In this intelligent, well-researched, and engagingly polemical study, Jeffrey Williams explores structural markers and interpretive consequences of what he calls "narrative moments--that is, moments in which the act of narrative itself is depicted and thus thematized or called into question" (1). Devoting chapters to a number of major British novels (Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness) and to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Williams argues that ...